The affair is grave, and the reward a sufficient pledge that we so esteem it." "Something was said, illustrious Signore, of a hundred sequins; but my mind taketh little heed of such particulars when the good of Venice is in question." "A hundred is the sum I promised." "I parted with a signet-ring, bearing some such design, to a female in the service of the Nuncio's first gentleman.

But this seal cannot come of that, since a woman of her station----" "Art sure ?" eagerly interrupted the Signor Gradenigo.
Hosea looked earnestly at his companion; and reading in his eye and countenance that the clue was agreeable, he answered promptly,-- "As that I live under the law of Moses! The bauble had been long on hand without an offer, and I abandoned it to the uses of my money." "The sequins are thine, excellent Jew! This clears the mystery of every doubt.

Go; thou shalt have thy reward; and if thou hast any particulars in thy secret register, let me be quickly possessed of them.

Go to, good Hosea, and be punctual as of wont.

I tire of these constant exercises of the spirit." The Hebrew, exulting in his success, now took his leave, with a manner in which habitual cupidity and subdued policy completely mastered every other feeling.